About 100 elite British troops have secretly been moved to a barracks in Kent to act as a Quick Reaction Force should terrorists attempt to blow up the Channel Tunnel or Eurostar terminals on this side of the English Channel.

The crack Royal Marines and Paras, who belong to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG), have transferred from their base in St Athan, South Wales, to Folkestone to respond to any attack in the UK by IS-inspired fanatics.

The moves comes after a migrant evaded hundreds of security cameras and police officers at the Chunnel’s entrance in Calais and marched 31 miles through to the UK.

He was arrested just yards from the exit in Folkestone.

The ease with which he avoided police and Eurotunnel officials on Tuesday last week raised such serious concerns that defence chiefs decided to move the SFSG into place. It came after weeks of migrants wreaking havoc in Calais and increasing fears that IS will seek to exploit the security weaknesses in the French port to sneak its terrorists into the UK.

The Mail on Sunday has also learned that troops from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) are filming the immigrants and asylum seekers on both sides of the English Channel after the British security services learned that terrorists were seeking to exploit the migrant crisis.

The Hereford-based SRR troops are collating a library of suspects’ faces and noting the registration of vehicles linked to asylum seekers.

Meanwhile in Calais, British anarchists were accused of ‘provocation’ last night after Left-wing activists led a mob of hundreds of migrants on a march through the streets of Calais.

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The 300 protesters chanted ‘open the borders’ as they headed past the Channel Tunnel and on to the ferry port in a three-hour demonstration which closed roads in the town.

The Mail on Sunday saw around 50 well-heeled activists from the UK, France, America and Holland handing out placards, banners and red armbands to the migrants before they departed the makeshift ‘Jungle’ camp where those seeking to enter Britain illegally live.

Marchers in Calais protest during a rally in support of those trying to enter the UK from France

The involvement of Left-wing agent provocateurs in yesterday’s protest was blasted by Emmanuel Agius, the deputy mayor of Calais. He said: ‘This march had no other motive except for provocation.

‘The organisers of this march are not the responsible organisations with whom we have worked for years to manage in the best possible way the huge migration problem which Calais is confronted with.’

Tim Woolrich, 48, an anarchist from York, moved into the Jungle six months ago ‘in solidarity’ with the immigrants and confirmed he belongs to anti-capitalist group No Borders, which has been blasted by the Calais authorities for ‘destabilising’ the town.

Swigging on a can of lager, Mr Woolrich said: ‘Borders are stupid. Freedom of movement is a basic human right.’

But many of the estimated 2,000 people living in the Jungle were not interested in yesterday’s march.

Karim, 18, from Afghanistan, said: ‘We are not on the march because we need to rest.

‘Yesterday we tried the fences and now tonight we will try again ... and we will keep trying until we get through.’